échafaudage
French, noun/e.ʃa.fo.daʒ/
échafaudage is spelled É-C-H-A-F-A-U-D-A-G-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,202nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Échafaudage is a French masculine noun meaning “scaffolding (system of tubes or poles used to support people and material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’établir des échafauds pour bâtir, pour peindre ou pour faire tout autre travail”.
What does échafaudage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescaffolding (system of tubes or poles used to support people and material)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’établir des échafauds pour bâtir, pour peindre ou pour faire tout autre travail. 2. Assemblage de ces échafauds. 3. Construction politique ou sociale. 4. Grand préparatif qu’on fait pour peu de chose et notamment un grand raisonnement inutile ou vain, un grand étalage de sentiments, de maximes, d’arguments sur un sujet de peu d’importance.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of échafaudage
- échafaudages plural
- échaffaudage dated
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échafaudage?
- /e.ʃa.fo.daʒ/
- \e.ʃa.fo.daʒ\
- [e.ʃa.fo.d̪aʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to échafaudage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is échafaudage in French?
échafaudage appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).